The Israeli government and Hezbollah have traded blame over breaches to the truce, which is set to run for several more weeks

Lebanon’s health ministry said Israeli strikes on the country’s south killed 14 people on Sunday, the deadliest day since a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah came into force over a week ago.

The health ministry said the dead on Sunday included two women and two children, adding that 37 other people were wounded. Israel said one of its soldiers was also killed.

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US president says in interview his curiosity probably slowed Secret Service efforts to rush him out of event

Donald Trump spoke with CBS correspondent Norah O’Donnell in an interview that aired Sunday night on 60 Minutes describing his ordeal at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner when shots rang out.

A gunman opened fire at the Washington Hilton hotel Saturday night, though he did not breach the basement-level ballroom where Trump was sitting at the time. The president described the events in an even tone, saying that he did not feel particularly alarmed as they unfolded.

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Kings Canyon, located in Watarrka National Park in Australia's Northern Territory, is a dramatic destination featuring 300m high red sandstone walls, palm-filled crevices, and ancient landscapes. A 3-4 hour drive from Uluru, it is famous for the 6km Rim Walk, the "Garden of Eden" waterhole, and as a key stop along the Red Centre Way. Source: northernterritory.com

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Kitagawa, Aki District, Kochi Prefecture, Shikoku, Japan
日本四国地方高知県安芸郡北川村

A garden where the light of the Mediterranean meets that of Kochi.

"The Garden of Bordighera" is a one-of-a-kind garden inspired by the radiant works of Monet.
In 2008, Kitagawa Village's "Monet's Garden" Marmottan created the world's first "Garden of Light," themed around Monet's works inspired by his journey to Bordighera and the Mediterranean world. However, after 12 long years, the dry Mediterranean worldview began to fade, so in 2020, as part of the 20th-anniversary project, the "Garden of Light" was completely renovated to restore its brilliance. By re-examining Monet's works, Bordighera, and the Mediterranean world, the "Garden of Light" was reborn as "The Garden of Bordighera," where visitors can experience the beautiful Mediterranean light, plantings, and Monet's works.
At the age of 43, Monet traveled to Bordighera in the Mediterranean with Renoir. He was captivated by the light and colors there, and excitedly created more than 30 works. These works, in which he was strongly impressed by "color through light," are said to be important points in understanding his later creative activities. Using the landscapes he depicted, his travels, and his works as themes, he challenged himself to create a unique garden utilizing the undulating terrain of Kitagawa Village, combining Mediterranean plantings such as palms and olives with Kochi plantings such as azaleas and yuzu. He also incorporated elements of Japanese gardens, using the scenery of the sea and mountains as borrowed landscapes, to create a Mediterranean feel within the nature of Kochi. Enjoy the light and colors of the Mediterranean and the landscapes that moved Monet in the "Bordighera Garden."
Source: www.kjmonet.jp/guide/garden-of-light/

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"I love these machines," writes long-time Slashdot reader Shayde:

I was super-active in the Unix-PC Usenet groups back in the 90s... We hacked the hell out of them. They were small, sexy, and... they ran Unix!

Unfortunately, they were a commercial failure. There were so many things wrong with them — not just stuff that broke, but the baseline configuration was nigh on worthless. I recently was able to get another machine and got it up and running (with a few hiccups). I whipped up a video showing all the cool things it can do, but also running through what went wrong and why it ultimately failed.
The video shows the ancient green-on-black screen of 1984's AT&T Unix PC (with the OS running on a silicon drive emulation). The original machine had 512K of memory and a 10-megabyte hard drive described as slow, failure-prone, and noisy. There's also a drive for inserting floppy disks, and a separate MS-DOS board (with its own CPU) that could be plugged into the expansion slot — but the device was "remarkably heavy," weighing in aqt 40 pounds

See the strange 1984 mouse, and its keyboard with both a Return key and a separate Enter key. There's even plug-in ports for phone landlines. "It looked great," Shayde says in the video, showing off its Spirograph demo and '80s-era games like Pong, Conway's Game of Life, GNU Chess, "Trk", and NetHack. But besides slow startup times, it was expensive — in today's dollars, it would've cost roughly $15,000 — and suffered from Unix's lack of spreadsheets, word processing software and other office productivity tools at the time. At that price the Unix PCs couldn't compete with IBM's home computers and their desktop applications. "It just didn't have the resources, the software, the capabilities and the price point that made it attractive."

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